
THE MODERN AGE 1900–1950II
ART AND TECHNOLOGY: A NEW UNITY 1901–19282
IZVESTIA
IZVESTIA BUILDING FACADE
Moscow, Russia
Grigori Barkhin (1880–1969), Architect
birthplace unknown
1926
Izvestia (meaning “delivered messages”), a
long-running, high-circulation Russian daily
newspaper, was the official newspaper of the
Soviet government (in contrast to Pravda, which
was the Communist Party’s newspaper).
Its headquarters building, an example of
early-twentieth-century constructivist architec-
ture, is located in Moscow’s Pushkin Square and
was built ten years after the Russian Revolution
to house both the newspaper’s office and print-
ing presses. Constructivist ...